Carrington

From The Elmer, NS7X The Infamous Carrington Event. Again???

Sometimes you experience a lucky happenstance. Some days you rely on dumb luck. And then there are the days you find yourself staring down the gun barrel of fate, and there’s nothing you can do about it. On August 28, 1859, our planet found itself to be the target of an active, and angry, sun. We earthlings were the recipient of a massive Coronal Mass Ejection. It was called the Carrington Event, which was named for the British astronomer, Richard Carrington, who first identified the incoming solar assault on our planet. They are still studying the effects of the Carrington Event. What we know is the sun had a huge solar flare. So large in fact, that it emitted a massive solar flare (I like to think of it as an enormous electro-magnetic spit wad) which happened to hit our planet. Apparently, the effects were world-wide when it hit us. The entire planet lit up, even those parts that were well into the night hours. There were reports of folks reading the newspaper in ”broad daylight”, even though the clocks read 2:00 AM. Men appeared at their work-place hours before their scheduled work time because they thought it was past dawn. The high-tech, modern telegraph operators reported many sparks, fires, and injuries on telegraph lines in spite of the fact that their telegraph lines had no power. Just so you know, the CME which caused the Carrington Event occurred during a relatively average Solar Cycle. We are at the high point of Solar Cycle 25, a much more active cycle. Our sun is sending out spit wads on almost a daily basis. The question is whether or not a massive CME will occur and will it hit our planet? We should have, depending on the circumstances, maybe about 12 hours to prep for such an event. After all, we really don’t know how a Carrington 2.0 event will affect our banking systems, our hospital diagnostic equipment, our cell phones, anything electronic, etc. What we do know is that some day, we’ll be staring down the barrel of another Carrington Event CME. When it will happen, and what consequences it will have on us, we don’t know. Another massive CME may have virtually the same outcome as an EMP, but the results of a CME will likely be a slow burn as opposed to that of an EMP which will be immediate. On the other hand, we can just rely on dumb luck. Just sayin’. When all else fails… Just sayin’.